Rom 5:5 CSB This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
A believer’s hope, since it is centred in God and His promises, does not disappoint him. “Disappoint” means “put to shame because of disappointment” in unfulfilled promises. The reason this hope (resulting finally from affliction) does not disappoint is that God has poured out His love into our hearts. God’s love, so abundant in believer’s hearts, encourages them on in their hope. And this love is poured out by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us. The Holy Spirit is the divine Agent who expresses to a believer the love of God, that is, God’s love for him. The reality of God’s love in a believer’s heart gives the assurance, even the guarantee, that the believer’s hope in God and His promise of glory is not misplaced and will not fail. This ministry of the Holy Spirit is related to His presence in believers as the seal of God and as the earnest or down payment of their inheritance in glory. Later Paul wrote that the Holy Spirit Himself has been poured out in believers. Each believer has the Spirit of Christ in the sense that He is indwelt by the Holy Spirit.
